Delhi Persian 1406B (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

Delhi Persian 1406B a.

Fragment of an untitled list of Arabic and Persian works and volumes by an unnamed compiler.

Not dated at end; datable to the early nineteenth century.

Flyleaf 1Av comprises a fragment extracted from an Arabic religious text.

Delhi Persian 1406B b.

Fragment of an untitled commentary by an unnamed author explaining the lyrics or ghazalīyāt of Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad Shīrāzī takhalluṣ Ḥāfiẓ (d. 792/1390).

The present copy is defective at the beginning and end.

Not dated at end; datable to the eighteenth century.

Annotations in margins.

Quotations in red.

Delhi Persian 1406B c.

Fragment of an untitled Sufi treatise on correct moral conduct by an unnamed author.

The present copy starts into bāb or chapter six and extends until bāb twenty-six.

The present copy is defective at the beginning and end.

Not dated at end; datable to the eighteenth century.

Delhi Persian 1406B d.

Hagiographic treatise by an unnamed author in praise of the Prophet Muḥammad, based on extracts from the Madārij al-nubuvvah by the celebrated muḥaddis̲ of Delhi, ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq ibn Sayf al-Dīn.

The present copy is defective at the end.

Not dated at end; datable to the early nineteenth century.

Delhi Persian 1406B e.

Fragment of an untitled commentary on the poems of the celebrated poet and Sufi, Mawlānā Rūmī Balkhī (d. 672/1273), by an unnamed author.

The present copy is defective at the beginning and end.

Not dated at end; datable to the late eighteenth century.

Delhi Persian 1406B f.

Fragment of an untitled Arabic treatise on medicine by an unnamed author.

The work describes Ibn Sīnā as an authority.

Although the present copy is defective at the beginning, the text ends abruptly without formal conclusion or colophon.

Not dated at end; datable to the early nineteenth century.